Shutdown of coal-fired power plant results in significant fetal health improvement in downwind areas

As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) moves to dismantle the Clean Power Plan touting a return to “cooperative federalism,” the results of a new study focused on the downwind impact on fetal health of emissions from a coal-fired power plant, which is located on the border between two states, highlight policy gaps engendered by state-level regulation of air pollution.